Hidden inside peripatetic sit peripatetic and precipitate, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 298 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
peripatetic and precipitate tie for the highest Scrabble score from peripatetic at 17 points. The top 10 of 298 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in peripatetic: one comes from rearranging its letters, and peripatetic itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peripatetic and precipitate, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling peripatetic turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crepitate and peripetia, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peripatetic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with appetite. For points, the strongest play is praecipe — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in peripatetic produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pettier and receipt. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including crappie, epicarp and percept.
Unscrambling peripatetic turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, create and pirate. For points, the strongest plays are capper, peptic, and precip — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peripatetic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic, cater and paper. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including paper, peace and piece.
Rearranging the letters in peripatetic produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, care and cart. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including cape, crap and epic.
Unscrambling peripatetic turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ape. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cap, app and cep.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in peripatetic. If a familiar word is all you need, start with at and it. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in peripatetic plus one additional letter.
peripatetic is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for peripatetic. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
peripatetic is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing peripatetic unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are peripatetic and precipitate, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from peripatetic earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in peripatetic produce 298 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.